This writer is a former enlisted man before entering West Point and eventually served as an Army captain in the Vietnam War.   Most veterans are thoroughly disgusted with the way Barack Obama has politicized the United States military with his imposition of left-wing social experiments upon the military service.

John Howland, a 1964 U.S. Naval Academy graduate, who manages a web site on naval issues called USNA-At-Large, was quoted in yesterday's "The Washington Times" commenting about the social experimentations being imposed by the president on the U.S. military:  "It's pretty dire.  We're back to H.M.S. Pinafore."  This is a reference to the comic opera about English shipboard life.  Mr. Howland continued, "The leadership of the military is pretty much politically correct kind of stuff. You like to think that we’re approaching hitting bottom, but these people are not through with us yet.”
 
Annapolis graduate Howland also commented about Ray Mabus, Obama's Secretary of the Navy, who is capitulating to Obama's social experiments leading to the steady deterioration of America's great Navy, "Mabus is an unequivocal disaster.  He’s done nothing but the straight social engineering play book. Women on submarines is a looming disaster that is sure to come. He’s done the ship naming things.”
 
Obama's icing-on-the-cake with regards to his radical social experimentations being imposed on the American military is his naming of Navy ships for his left-wing comrades.  One of the more outrageous examples of this was a ship named after the arguably socialist and radical union leader, Cesar Chavez.  Now, the USNS Cesar Chavez, has been forced upon the U.S. Navy.
 
Obama and his political sychophants, including some in the Navy, are even thinking about naming a ship for Ted Kennedy who did more to weaken the United States military and national security, during his Senate career, than almost all other Senators in American history.
 
American ships should continue to be named for war heroes such as Lieutenant John F. Kennedy or Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz or for great presidents such as Ronald Reagan, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Dwight Eisenhower, Harry S. Truman, etc. and not for some president's political cronies. The United States Congress must do everything in its power to stop Barack Obama from continuing to dishonor our United States military.